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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"protestant ethic"”.

  1. The Protestant ethic controversy

    Smith, J. A.University of Cambridge1981

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  2. The Protestant Ethic Effect: A Multiple Dependent Variable Analysis

    Stephens, Ronald

    … labels "contrafreeloading" (Taylor, 1972) and "Protestant ethic effect" (Singh, 1972; Metze & Craig, 1973) have been applied to this phenomenon. The general aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of this behavior through a review of relevant literature and through experimental …

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  3. Work in the Calling in Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis

    Schindley, Wanda Beatrice HigbeeUniversity of North Texas2000

    … Methods. Comparative analysis of early Protestant Lutheran and Calvinist documents from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was used to flesh out a history of ideas to determine whether evidence exists to support Weber's claims related to religious doctrine. Results. Historical …

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  4. Working on the Protestant ethic : life in a Presbyterian community in Malawi

    Quinn, Ann-LiseUniversity of Cambridge1993

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  5. The Kenotic Structure of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Secularization

    Marlin, Demelza KateUNSW, Sydney2010

    … the modern. Using Max Weber’s seminal study of Protestantism and capitalism as its point of departure, this thesis demonstrates that secularization is a kenotic process. It is characterized by the passage between spirit and flesh, an active commerce that endures within the modern, as the …

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  6. The Protestant ethic and the spirit of modern public education : an analysis of the influence of Calvin and Ignatius in the sixteenth century

    Gligoric, Srdjan1997

    … exploration of the connection between the Protestant ethic and the spirit of modern public education. According to Weber's methodology, the emphasis is placed on the way in which Calvin's theology, specifically that of predestination, and his presbyterian system influenced the development …

    concordia Repository record

  7. The Relations Among Cultural Values, Ethnicity, And Job Choice Trade-off Preferences

    Isenhour, Linda

    … (a) cultural values (power distance, Protestant Ethic-earnings, Protestant Ethic-upward striving), (b) ethnicity (European-American, Hispanic-American), and (c) their job choice trade-off preferences for organizational prestige over pay using Thurstone's (1927, 1931) law of comparative …

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  8. Spirit and economy: Pentecostalism and the afterlives of Max Weber

    Nogueira-Godsey, TradDepartment of Religious Studies2012

    … with the simultaneous publication of Max Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the emergence of Pentecostal spirituality at the Azusa Street Revival, and culminating in an analysis of recent claims that Pentecostals possess an equivalent to what Max Weber called "an ethic of inner-worldly asceticism", and …

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  9. The will to act : an analysis of Max Weber's sociology in the light of Goethe's fiction

    Sahni, Isher-Paul1996

    Max Weber's Protestant Ethic and vocation essays are interpreted in the light of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Elective Affinities, Wilhelm Meister , and Faust . Drawing on themes which frame the latter's novels, the importance of experience, renunciation, and a specialized vocation which underlie …

    concordia Repository record

  10. The Achievement Motive : A Sociological Analysis

    Baumbach, H. Dale

    … Weber's theory of achievement implicit in THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM are experimentally analyzed and compared with Theodore Kemper's theory of reference groups in an attempt to determine the relative importance of factors of the immediate social situation versus ingrained …

    loma-linda Repository record

  11. Individual performance in a piecework setting: an analysis of employee differences

    Fox, JeremyVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University1988

    … the valence of pay was related to age and Protestant ethic while previous findings that employees high in affiliation need were susceptible to rate restriction were not supported. Findings from this study hold promise for more effective selection of piecework employees and add insight into …

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  12. Spiritual, But Not Religious Identities in U.S. Faith-Based Activism: Case Studies in the Nipponzan Myohoji Order and the Catholic Worker Movement

    Cross, Katharine HesterVirginia Tech2018

    … identity in the context of two phenomena: the Protestant legacy in the United States and "engaged spirituality," in which individuals' spirituality is integrally linked to engagement with social activism. The early Protestant history of the United States and the "Protestant ethic," per Max …

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  13. Friesens Corporation, printers in Mennonite Manitoba, 1951-1995

    Thiessen, Janis1997

    … and capitalism is that of Max Weber in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. However, where the Protestant work ethic emphasizes individualism and personal success as a proof of God's blessing, the Mennonite work ethic stresses collective effort as evidence of one's relationship …

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